A South African Arts & Culture Magazine
September 26 will mark the birthday of Leonard Sachs.The future television, stage and film actor Leonard Meyer Sachs was born that day in 1909 in the small town of Roodepoort, Gauteng. He received his education in South Africa and moved…
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Tough guy Bruce Lester escaped a Nazi jail to help keep a chemical formula out of their hands, physician Bruce Lester took care of victims of the Mau Mau Revolt of the 1950s, and British aristocrat Bruce Lester killed a…
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If an American casting director sought an English type to play a nobleman or a detective he or she looked for Ian Hunter. Hunter was born on June 13, 1900 in the Kenilworth area of Cape Town. When he was…
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Discover friendship, humour and hope with My Blind Date with Life that will be showing from 04 May 2018 EXCLUSIVELY at Ster-Kinekor Cinema Nouveau theatres. From the director of the Academy Award nominated film Sophie Scholl, comes the unbelievable and…
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There is no way you can see one of her performances of “Pata Pata” on television and not be entranced by her beauty, her lovely voice, her elegance and her charm. March 4 was the 86th anniversary of Miriam Makeba’s…
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Barbara Vance (Molly Lamont, far left) Her performances are often described as “tense” and “dignified”. Her real life personality, however, was described as “kind” and her demeanour “well trained”. On May 22, 1910, the historic little gold mining town of…
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Bruce Gordon, action hero and director, is not well known today since most of his work took place during the silent era. To confound matters further, there was another actor born in the United States with the same name whose…
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Submissions are open for the 20th Encounters South African International Documentary Festival 31 May – 10 June 2018 Cape Town & Johannesburg www.encounters.co.za The organisers of Encounters are calling for feature, mid-length and short documentary film entries from South African and International…
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If you have seen many classic films you have seen Cecil Kellaway’s plump figure and heard his distinctive clipped accent. Born August 22, 1893 n Cape Town to Edwin John Kellaway and Rebecca Annie Brebner Kellaway, Cecil Lauriston Kellaway’s British…
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Movie myth and legend maintains that Cape Town native Sybil Jason would have been as popular a child star as Shirley Temple but she had no chance to shine because Temple kept getting the best films. The real story is…
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